GOP Corruption at Every Level
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| There are so many possible responses to all these enormous crimes, poor judgments and corruption that all my brain boils it down to is: holllleeeeee shit. |
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| The GOP is a white supremacist, anti-democratic party now; to the extent it has some minority support, those persons are either complicit in a fascist movement or simply stooges. Period. |
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Georgia's Republican House Whip indicted for 2019 felony fatal hit and run. Of course he's been fighting hard to over turn the 2020 election. This guy left a man to die in the street.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-lawmaker-charged-with-reckless-conduct-for-role-in-hit-and-run-case/W4XBKCXB4ZH7TGVSY22X3TQMQE/ |
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They’re not good people. |
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Considering the latest on Hunter Biden, this article aged very poorly. |
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Gosh. There are examples of GOP felons in the news every day. There is something wrong with them. Todays second or third entry is "GOP Candidate Who Pushed Q Anon Conspiracy Theory Is Arrested For Child Porn." https://wgno.com/yleh/bafb-airman-unsuccessful-gop-challenger-in-la-dist-4-race-charged-with-child-pornography/
A candidate for Congress in LA and an active duty airman was caught in a sting with child porn images on his computer. |
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Jared Woodfill, former Harris County Republican Party Chairman, represents Dr. Steven Hotze, the president of the right-leaning Liberty Center for God & Country, the organization who paid a former Houston Police Department Captain Mark Anthony Aguirre hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate voter fraud.
Aguirre, 63, was arrested by Houston police Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. He had an HVAC repairman under surveillance for days and assaulted him thinking his truck was full of fraudulent ballots instead of air conditioning parts. https://abc13.com/amp/mark-anthony-aguirre-former-houston-police-department-captain-arrested-aggravated-assault-liberty-center/8802235/?__twitter_impression=true Jared Woodfill is being investigated on theft and money laundering allegations, accused of misappropriating funds of at least two of his law firm’s clients, according to an affidavit by the Harris County District Attorney’s office.” https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/amp/Theft-money-laundering-allegations-sparked-raid-13389500.php?__twitter_impression=true |
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Also, Hotze is the guy who left a voicemail with Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the summer telling him that the National Guard should be shooting and killing rioters. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/03/steve-hotze-texas-greg-abbott-rioters/amp/?__twitter_impression=true |
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https://abc13.com/mark-anthony-aguirre-former-houston-police-department-captain-arrested-aggravated-assault-liberty-center/8802235/ "Aguirre allegedly never told police that he had been paid a total of $266,400 by the Houston-based Liberty Center for God and Country, with $211,400 of that amount being deposited into his account the day after the incident." It sounds like Liberty Center for God and Country endorses the assault. I hope the A/C technicians sue the pants off Aguirre and his organization. They seem to have deep pockets. |
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So, Pete Davison might have been right about Crenshaw after all?
Bond Villain |
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The latest from Marc Elias:
December 16, 2020 By Marc Elias In 1814, John Adams wrote a letter to Virginia Delegate John Taylor reminding that “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.” Texas was never going to win its recent lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but if it had, it certainly would have fulfilled Adams’ dark prophesy. The lawsuit, filed by a Texas Attorney General under criminal investigation, read more like an effort to curry favor with the President than a serious legal document. On a personal level, his logic was sound: when pardons are being handed out to corrupt cronies, corrupt people figure out how to become a crony, fast. Far more alarming was the decision of eighteen other Republican state attorneys general—most of whom presumably do not need a pardon from the outgoing president—to support Texas’ effort to disenfranchise millions of American voters and overthrow the results of a democratically held election. They were joined by more than half of the Republican members of the House of Representatives—126 in all—all signing onto the proposition that four states’ elections should be entirely discarded. Strikingly, several of the signatures on that brief were from Members seeking to disenfranchise their own voters and cast their own elections into doubt. The Supreme Court rejected Texas’ anti-democratic effort unanimously, with seven justices saying that Texas did not have a legal right to proceed and the other two saying that they wouldn’t block the election even if the case did proceed. Our institutions held—this time. But the broad support among Republicans for the previously unthinkable—a demand that the judiciary deliver Trump the presidency against the overwhelming will of the American people—signals a worrying and serious erosion of our democratic values within the Republican Party. This time, there were several reasons that the attempted coup failed and John Adams’ prediction did not come to pass. There is no guarantee that we will be so lucky next time. First and most obvious, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won a landslide election garnering more than 300 electoral votes and a lead of more than seven million votes nationwide. There was no single contested state whose results decided the outcome. Second, the states attacked by Trump’s lawsuits included states with mixed partisan governments–Georgia has a Republican Governor and legislature, while Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all have Democratic governors and Republican legislatures. Third, Democrats control the U.S. House, and the Senate is narrowly divided. Thus, any ultimate decision to tamper with democracy would face a skeptical Congress. Finally, the legal claims being advanced were outlandish, unsupported in law or fact, and poorly lawyered. By the time the U.S. Supreme Court received Texas’ case, similar claims had been rejected by courts around the country, and the lawyers advancing them had become the subject of national ridicule. But what if it were closer, the legal claims and team more polished and the Congress unified in support of that candidate? Donald Trump came to prominence in Republican politics by promoting birtherism—the racist lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Even as clear evidence proved that it was not true, Trump did not retreat. Instead, he expanded the lie to make it even more outrageous and conspiratorial. Trumpism has morphed from a racist attack on the first Black president into an all-out assault on the very idea of democratic elections. In this sphere, Trumpism’s defining feature is a belief that every electoral outcome that does not favor Trump and his allies must be fraudulent. Its logic is tautological—if Trump did not win there must have been fraud. If there was fraud, Trump did not win. Nothing more is required. One might think that the simple end of this problem is for Donald Trump to simply leave the White House on the morning of January 20th as a disgraced one-term president. The Republican Party’s reaction to the Texas case suggests this will not be the case. John Taylor, to whom Adams was writing, was also skeptical of virtue as the foundation for democratic government. “The more a nation depends for its liberty on the qualities of individuals, the less likely it is to retain it. By expecting public good from private virtue, we expose ourselves to public evils from private vices.” Trumpism has taught us that, for our democracy to survive, we cannot allow ourselves to be exposed to public evils from private vices. This means hardening our institutions of democracy and making them more explicit. This will need to take many forms, but we must start with those that force our nation’s leaders to do better. First, every election-related lawsuit should have to explicitly state in the caption of the complaint whether the plaintiff is claiming fraud. Claims of fraud must be held to the highest pleading standard—providing the details of who, what, when and how much. If plaintiffs do not claim fraud, they need to say so. When a lawsuit claiming fraud is dismissed, judges should be required to make a specific finding that the claim of fraud was denied. Second, state bar associations should promulgate specific rules of ethical conduct aimed at anti-democratic efforts. Just as attorneys owe an obligation to the court, they should owe obligations to democracy and democratic institutions. Lawyers should not be allowed to recklessly shout fraud in the parking lot but quietly disclaim it in the courtroom. Finally, the House and Senate must strengthen their internal rules to prevent Members from undermining democracy. Candidates who, through public statements or court filings, cast doubt on an election that they won should not be seated without formal inquiry into the validity of the election credentials. Members should also be cautioned from making statements, outside of official channels, casting doubt on the validity of an election other than one for a seat in their own chamber. These suggestions are not the complete solution for what we have witnessed, but they are a start. We cannot ignore the challenges our democracy faces. We must not wait to act until it is too late. |
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“To celebrate Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection last year, his inaugural committee paid a whopping $1.7 million to hire country crooner George Strait and his band. A coterie of top political aides and staff got more than $1 million, some of it paid out in six-figure bonuses. And a handful of lucky charities received $800,000 in unspent money.
Left out of that tally: the $116,000 taxpayers spent to keep all those inaugural expenditures secret.” https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/17/texas-2019-inaugural/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1608219061&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ezQT80KHC7x5MC-OeC-4POpk0MxVzNeHsP1fpLSgrG1mEfimEHgsrS2I |